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Cultural Literacy Learning Programme Guidance for Using the Lesson Prompts (Primary)

We hope you enjoy watching the films and using the lesson prompts to promote good thinking, talking and cultural literacy in your class. You will need to engage with the professional development materials before moving forward so that you can set the prompts in a context and consider:

§ Exploring Cultural Literacy: Themes and Principles § Promoting and Building Dialogue in the Classroom § Mediating Wordless Texts: The Wonders of the Wordless

This guidance is designed to support you to make the most of the prompts.

The prompts include objectives for Dialogue and Argumentation, Cultural Understanding themes and ideas for discussions ‘about’ the films and ‘beyond’ the films. There is an additional idea for some Cultural Expression if you want to extend the lesson to enable the children to respond multimodally to the films. These are lesson prompts. We have found most success where teachers were able to take initial ideas and put their own spin on lesson plans. No one wants to follow a step-by-step script, as this can end up feeling restrictive. So, we’ve given ideas around which you’ll be able to plan DIALLS lessons according to yours and your children’s needs and interests. We would suggest you take the lessons in order as the dialogue and argumentation objectives build cumulatively. However, you could swap films around if you keep the order of these objectives in mind. Remember these are very broad prompts for each age phase of children (KS1 or KS2) the ideas will need adapting dependent on your children’s experiences. Some films are used for more than one age group, we have just adapted the discussion themes. The themes for the discussions come from the DIALLS wheel:

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As Tolerance, Empathy and Inclusion are core dispositions for DIALLS we have included them in the first three lessons of the CLLP as topics to discuss. In addition, the objectives for dialogue and argumentation are also geared towards helping children to become tolerant, empathetic and inclusive in their discussion behaviours. Consult the SPCLL Dialogue Progression Tool for a set of indicators for this type of talk. Sensitive Issues It is strongly recommended that you watch the films before planning your lessons. A couple of the films have some slightly odd moments in them eg. in The House (KS2), there is a moment where a dog gets tied to the leg of the house and is left dangling when the house moves; similarly in Hedgehog and the City (KS2) there is a moment where reindeer drink cans of beer in the park. School cultures differ in terms of what would be acceptable to show, so think about your class! If you decide not to show a film, you could extend another lesson to build in the dialogue progression. As with any discussion that happens in a classroom, if you feel that a discussion is taking an uncomfortable turn for any of the children, then this should be addressed, and the discussion ended. Getting started Before starting on the lesson prompts, take some time to tell the children about the DIALLS project. Explain that it has been a project involving children all over Europe with a focus on learning about ourselves, how to live together kindly and how to be responsible for others – we call this Cultural Literacy. You could look at the Virtual Gallery of artwork that has been created by children around the countries involved in the project on the www.DIALLS2020.eu website. Teachers of KS2 age range might want to establish some ‘Ground Rules for Talk’ before starting, this is part of the first session for KS1. If you teach older children, you might want to share with the children the DIALLS wheel, which has different cultural themes included, and you could talk about the meaning of some of these. For younger children you could look at the DIALLS logo – What does it remind them of? Some children in the project last year had a go at making their own!

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The Prompts explained

We’ve included the title in its original language first.

The translations have been given by the film

distributor Each session concentrates on objectives for talk skills in addition to the content of the discussion. These

should be shared with the students and reviewed at the end of lessons. Think about how they can be achieved through group

work and whole class talk

The Cultural Understanding themes are

drawn from our DIALLS wheel. They all broadly fit

within the cultural concepts of Living Together, Social

Responsibility and Belonging. Sometimes

they are about the core dispositions of Tolerance Empathy and Inclusion, transactive themes that might be reflected in the content of the films AND

the way that students engage with each other.

These ideas are for extensions beyond the lesson where children might respond to the theme of the lesson

through art and drama. The ideas are just that –

they are starting points for your own imaginative

explorations!

About the film prompts are to explore

interpretations and gather responses to the film

itself, giving the chance to understand the wordless

text. Beyond the film prompts take the

discussion to a new level, moving into more

philosophical and values driven discussions which might pose challenges to

the students as they listen to and engage with the

ideas of each other

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Overview of Sessions

Key Stage 1 Film Cultural

Theme Cultural Understanding

Dialogue and Argumentation Learning

1 The Amazing Little Worm Belonging: (Identity); Empathy

I like being me! We can learn to talk together

2 Super Big Tolerance We should not judge people by how they look

We can share our ideas

3 Ant Living Together: Democracy; Inclusion

We can include everyone’s ideas to make things better

We can listen carefully to each other

4 Big Finds a Trumpet Inclusion We can include the things that other children like

We can encourage each other to join in

5 Law of the Jungle Living Together: Equality

We can think about how fair things are

We can give reasons using 'because'

6 Head Up Living Together: Diversity

We can all learn from each other whether we are big or small

We can think about the ideas of others

7 November Living Together: Solidarity

We can work together to overcome problems

We can respect the ideas of others

8 Mobile Social Responsibility: Cooperation

We can cooperate to make sure everyone is happy

We can build on the ideas of others

9 Chiripajas Social Responsibility: Sustainable Development

We understand how litter affects the environment

We can work together to agree on an idea

10 Boomerang Social Responsibility: Sustainable Development

We understand rubbish has to go somewhere

We can sometimes disagree - and that's okay

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Key Stage 2 Film Cultural Theme Cultural

Understanding Dialogue and Argumentation Learning

1 Ant Living Together: Democracy; Inclusion

We understand how democracy can include everyone

We can encourage everyone to contribute

2 Papa’s Boy Tolerance We understand the importance of tolerance

We respect the ideas of each other

3 Super Big Tolerance and Empathy

We understand the importance of not judging people without knowing them

We can justify our ideas

4 Falling Letters Empathy We understand the importance of seeing the world through the eyes of others

We can relate to the ideas of others

5 Law of the Jungle Living Together: Equality

We can discuss the ideas of equality and fairness

We can build on ideas

6 Boomerang Social Responsibility: Sustainable Development

We understand the impact of consumerism

We can challenge ideas respectfully

7 Chiripajas Social Responsibility: Sustainable Development

We understand how litter affects the environment

We can find out more about ideas to seek common ground

8 Hedgehogs and the City Social Responsibility: Social and Civic Competence

We can discuss ways to improve communities

We can negotiate ideas to seek agreement

9 Free Art Social Responsibility: Social and Civic Competence

We can reflect on the value of street art

We can change our minds

10 The House Belonging We can reflect on the concept of home and belonging

We can discuss alternatives and evaluate them